One of the measures on the survey is selected monthly homeowner costs, which combines various expenses like mortgage payments, property taxes, insurance, and utilities. Based on the household-level responses among those surveyed who owned their homes, we found the cutoff point for the top 1% of the distribution of homeowner costs — those homeowners spending more on their houses than 99% of their neighbors — in the largest metro areas in the country.

Here are the minimum monthly costs for homeowners in the top 1% for 12 major metro areas.